Center Align Text in TextField

[Mark Bolduc]

If you are experiencing an issue please mention the full platform your issue applies to:
IDE: NetBeans/Eclipse/IDEA Netbeans  12.2
Desktop OS Windows 10 Pro
Simulator latest
Device simulator IOS, Android

Please suggest how to center align a textField with params as below.

Always justifies to RIGHT. LEFT works correctly

            Form hi = new Form("Center Text in TextField", BoxLayout.y());
            TextField txt = new TextField("55565");
            txt.setEditable(true);
            txt.getAllStyles().setAlignment(TextField.CENTER);
            txt.setSingleLineTextArea(true);
            txt.setConstraint(TextField.DECIMAL);
            hi.add(txt);
            hi.show();

Regards

[Shai Almog]

We don't support centering a text field at this time. Only a text area (multiline) and even then not when editing. So when you move to editing mode it will jump to the left/right respectively.

Center text field has a bit of a nuanced behavior and it's hard to replicate it when going back and forth between native editing and lightweight.

[Mark Bolduc]

That works

Seems like it would be same code to center TextField as TextArea,

Odd.

Regards

[Shai Almog]

Not really.

A text field overflows when the text is too long and the center behavior is very inconsistent/challenging. AS text area is slightly more consistent here.

For both we don't support the editing in the center mode.